<div dir="ltr">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>Please find below my candidate statement. My apologies for the slight delay as I was traveling.</div><div><br></div><div>----------------------<br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1.</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Why do you want to serve on the EC?</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I consider NCUC as the
user’s platform in the world of ICANN. It is where the users’ interests are
taken into consideration and are protected, in one way or the other, and the EC
of NCUC is the right place to make impactful contributions while trying to
protect users’ interest. Coming from a developing country with huge population,
different cultural sectors and a diverse set of Internet access and usage, I
can represent the region in an effective way while trying to raise voice of
underprivileged end users of the Internet. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">On the other hand, I
also want to be at the EC so as to be able to do some meaningful and practical
work on the outreach strategies and help in realizing what is being committed
normally and is hardly realized. There is a strong need to take advantage of
such a strong new membership base that has been added to NCUC in past 2 years
or so, and I believe that I can be in a position to do more when at the EC in
this regard. In past few months, being the coordinator of NCUC Membership
Affairs team, I have been trying to come up with a comprehensive strategy to
help engage members, and realized that this process requires continuous effort
and commitment from the leadership. I hope to do better with the engagement
process while being on the EC.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">2.</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Provide a brief biography of recent experience, associations,
and affiliations relevant to serving on the Executive Committee. Describe the
relevance of your personal and professional experience to serve on the
NCUC Executive Committee, and identify any conflicts of interests you might
have.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I received PhD in
Computer Networking with specialization on Internet Naming and Addressing and
Communication Architectures from University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France,
and am currently working as Associate Professor in Computer Engineering Department
at Ajman University of Science & Technology, UAE. Moreover, I have been volunteering
serving as President of ISOC Islamabad Chapter till earlier this year. Besides,
I have been associated with ICANN as fellow and coach (mentor) since ICANN 50
and have got ICANN fellowship for 5 meetings out of the last 7 meetings held
(ICANN 50, 52, 53, 54, and 56), while being invited specially to attend ICANN
55 meeting by ICANN to coordinate the fellowship sessions. Since June 2014, I
am working with SSR team of ICANN on security-related matters and got trained
as a trainer for the Middle-East region from ICANN and NSRC at Dubai in April
2015. On the other hand, I have also got fellowship for ISOC to attend IETF 92
in March 2015, and am contributing at that forum as well.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Being a member of NCUC
for two years and an ICANN fellowship coach for 3 ICANN meetings, I have
motivated and helped a number of new fellows in joining NCUC, NPOC and NCSG,
and an increase of new fellows joining NCUC is quite obvious from the data.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I have no conflict of
interest.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">3.</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The EC performs several functional responsibilities for the
Constituency. What level of time commitment can you bring to your EC role
on a weekly and overall basis? Describe any concerns or limitations
on your ability to attend online meetings of the Executive Committee and ICANN
Meetings in person. </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Coming from academia,
I have more luxury to manage my time depending on the tasks at hand. My
employer is quite open in letting me go out to attend meetings in person and it
is counted as an “official assignment” in accordance with the university
policy. Hence, I don’t have any problem in attending the meetings either in
person or online. Being a member of the EC, I can pledge to spend 6-8 hours per
week to do assignments related to my responsibility, which may be increased as
well depending upon the requirement and urgency of matter at hand. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">4.</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Communication with the membership is critical.
How would you keep members apprised of your EC-related activities?</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Communication with the
membership is utterly critical, and this is one of the main motivations behind
accepting the nomination to serve at the EC of NCUC. I feel that this is an
area which has a lot of margin of improvement in its current form, and realize
this even strongly after being associated with NCUC Membership Affairs Team for
past one year. I have also prepared a draft document recently in order to
propose new strategy for engaging the large membership base of NCUC and the
document is still in progress. I believe that there is a strong need of
engaging regional members and try to keep them alive in the NCUC processes via
extensive engagement sessions, and there should be one of the primary
responsibilities of the EC member from each region. Currently, I don’t see
regional bonding between NCUC members and this have an effect on the local
engagement as well. Secondly, more should be done to engage local communities
and making them aware of ICANN processes and in particular what NCUC could do
for them. Translation could be done in more languages to increase awareness and
this is something I plan to do. As an EC member, I would pay strong attention
towards engagement of new members into the NCUC activities in order to utilize
their potential and making them comfortable in the community sooner rather than
later.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">5.</span></b><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">How do you foresee NCUC’s function, scale, or role changing in
the future? What areas of ICANN policy, if any, need more attention and why?
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I would urge the
constituency to do more towards making new members more engaged in the NCUC
activities, possibly via some kind of mentorship program, or coming up with a
call for volunteers to do a less important piece of a large task for the new
members. Moreover, a proper database with members’ interest and their areas of
expertise should be published somewhere on the NCUC’s website so that members
can work with each other online or offline more effectively.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">As an academic having
technical background and involved in users’ interest in local community through
ISOC platform, I am more interested in the policies relevant to users’ privacy
and security related issues. Moreover, ICANN accountability issues should be
more carefully addressed especially post-transition. <span></span></span></p>
<div> ----------------</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Naveed -</div></div>